Woven Skull plus Yehoshua & Lorentzian

Woven Skull work up an incredible, dense head of steam from a humble set up: Guitar, Mandola and a minimal drum kit. You need to hear them to get the full impact, so don’t waste any time and listen to their latest album on Bandcamp. Like it? Of course you do.

Woven Skull began playing together in 2008 in the empty sparse Irish countryside in a house owned by two of the members and located at the foot of Sheemore. These atmospheric surroundings helped to forge their music, which has been described as ‘minimal, repetitive, distorted, ugly and beautiful in one’. The trio spent several years experimenting with combinations of instrumentation, household objects, kitchen utensils, seashells, footsteps, chimes, recordings of cats purring and frogs mating while developing a sound that after a recent set was described as ‘a Turkish Velvet Underground.’

Within the group, song writing is split equally between Aonghus on densely propulsive guitar and Natalia on distorted mandola. These are glued together by the endless cyclical rhythms created by Willie and inspired by the sounds of the bogs and woods that surround his home: from syncopated cattle calls to the beating wings of bats in the night to the creaking of trees as they push against each other in the wind.

Woven Skull have recorded in dark haunted woods, beside bottomless lakes, and in the attics of abandoned houses. Lair of the Glowing Bantling, is their first studio album and captures a sound that’s more in line with their live performance than past releases, which have been a mix of lo-fi practice tapes, outdoor recordings and segments from collaborative sets.

YEHOSHUA

Josh Horsley's abstract electronics project takes in intense drones, stumbling techno beats and hypnotic repetition, all delivered with a minimalist's attention to detail. Josh has performed his music in the Tate Modern and Ingmar Bergman's cinema Uppsala, and he has recently performed a number of shows as part of Ex Easter Island Head's large ensemble. His recent EP for Concrète Tapes has seen radio play on Radio 3's flagship experimental show Late Junction - check it out HERE

LORENTZIAN

Kicking off the night will be Preston based electronica producer Lorentzian - previous shows have featured pummelling, Autechre-like beats and synth, or soothing ambience - we aren't sure which we'll get tonight, but we can be sure it'll be great. Get down early.